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Some patients have discovered their private confessions are being quietly fed into AI.

La policía investiga, con la colaboración de OpenAI, el posible primer caso donde un chatbot pudo alentar un homicidio

A new Stanford study reveals that AI therapy chatbots may not only lack effectiveness compared to human therapists but could also contribute to harmful stigma and dangerous responses.

Meta’s AI Studio and Character.AI have been accused of presenting AI chatbots as real mental health care providers. All you need to know.

AI therapists are promising but unsafe. Stanford findings and an Illinois ban show why AI belongs in admin and training — not clinical judgment.

Some U.S. states are enacting laws to ban or heavily restrict AI-driven therapy. Nevada has done so. I cover both the good and bad involved. An AI Insider scoop.

Texas AG Ken Paxton investigates Meta AI Studio and Character.AI for misleading children with deceptive mental health chatbots.

On a recent episode of “Speaking of Psychology,” psychologist and researcher C. Vaile Wright explained why AI chatbots can’t replace human relationships.

Mustafa Suleyman said there was still “zero evidence of AI consciousness today”.

The state of Illinois earlier this month joined Utah and Nevada in restricting the use of artificial intelligence in mental health therapy. Illinois banned its use, specifically mentioning that AI companies cannot provide services to, “diagnose, treat, or improve an individual’s mental health or behavioral health” unless they are conducted by a licensed physician. Dr. Gail Saltz is an associate professor of psychiatry at the New York Presbyterian Hospital, Weill Cornell School of Medicine. She joined CBS News to discuss AI therapy.

AI chatbots pose significant mental health risks, often exacerbating issues like suicide, self-harm, and delusions, highlighting urgent regulatory needs.

The mental health issue can happen when someone relies on artificial intelligence chatbots for emotional support.

The parents of Adam Raine, who died by suicide in April, claim in a new lawsuit against OpenAI that the teenager used ChatGPT as his “suicide coach.”

ChatGPT taught teen jailbreak so bot could assist in his suicide, lawsuit says.

A Connecticut man named Stein-Erik Soelberg killed his mother and then himself after entering into psychosis linked to ChatGPT use.

Therapists say they are seeing negative impacts of people increasingly turning to AI chatbots for help

An investigation into the Meta AI chatbot built into Instagram and Facebook found that it helped teen accounts plan suicide and self-harm, promoted eating disorders and drug use, and regularly claimed to be “real.”

Chatbots should stop pretending to be human, writes the Center for Democracy & Technology’s Dr. Michal Luria.

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Live Science - Researchers have found that OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini and Anthropic’s Claude can give direct responses to ‘high-risk’ questions about …

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